[1850] ITC Competitive Tournament (San Antonio)

[Lagrath]

Hexfleet Virules Tournament Report: San Antonio, TX (May 10, 2015)

 

Background: The same great San Antonio store (Tabletop) had an 1850 tournament to kick off its local competitive league. No painting or sportsmanship score, though everyone seemed to be excellent sports all around. Sadly not as many people could come out as usual thanks to Mother's Day and another big event in town the day before (and the upcoming week- this store agreed to hold Alamo GT, a big Texas event, on short notice this upcoming weekend).

 

Format: 1850 points with ITC format for army selection and missions (1 modified ITC maelstrom and 1 eternal war mission per round). Max 11 points per round.

 

List: Hexfleet Virules 1850 Triple Chaos - "Of Guns and Daemons" (same as last tournament)

 

The Purge Detachment (Vraksian Renegades and Heretics) [Primary Detachment]

 

http://i.imgur.com/uKcAckv.jpg?1

 

HQ

Renegade Command Squad: 1x Arch Demagogue (Ordnance Tyrant, Devotion of Nurgle), 2x Disciples (lasguns), 1x Disciple Autocannon Team

 

Elites

Renegade Strike Battery: 2x Renegade Wyverns, 2 heavy flamers

Renegade Strike Battery: 2x Renegade Wyverns, 2 heavy flamers

 

Troops

20x Plague Zombie Mob

21x Plague Zombie Mob

 

Heavy Support

Renegade Rapier Laser Destroyer Battery: 3x Rapiers, 6x crew, weapons training

Renegade Rapier Laser Destroyer Battery: 3x Rapiers, 6x crew, weapons training

Renegade Rapier Laser Destroyer Battery: 3x Rapiers, 6x crew, weapons training

Renegade Rapier Laser Destroyer Battery: 3x Rapiers, 6x crew, weapons training

 

Fortification

Aegis Defense Line, quad gun

 

Combined Arms Detachment (Chaos Daemons)

HQ

1x Herald of Tzeentch, mastery level 3, exalted gift

1x Herald of Tzeentch, mastery level 3

1x Herald of Tzeentch, mastery level 3

 

Troops

12x Pink Horrors of Tzeentch

12x Pink Horrors of Tzeentch

 

Allied Detachment (Chaos Space Marines)

HQ

1x Sorcerer, master level 3, bolt pistol, force sword

 

Troops

5x Chaos Space Marines

1x Rhino, dozerblades, death of kasyr lutein

 

Heavy Support

1x Fire Raptor, 2 reaper autocannon batteries, 4 balefire missiles

 

 

Results: Game 1 - Versus IG + Knight. He had 1 wyvern, a giant platoon blob, 2 demolishers, a leman russ, 1 company command in chimera, 1 platoon command in chimera, 2 veterans squads in chimeras, 1 vendetta, and 1 Knight with the melta large blast and gatling cannon.

 

Mission was ITC Mission 6: Dawn of War, each person placed the #1 objective in their deployment zone and #2 18" from their board edge. These were the Maelstrom. All 4 total objectives counted for Crusade.

 

http://i.imgur.com/NN124QW.jpg?1

 

I won the roll to go first. For most of the game I kept him on his side of the table and just moved up with zombies and summoned daemonettes. I rotated off shaking and stunning as much of his armored firepower as I could, with my rapiers doing quite well. Unfortunately I had to ignore the Knight turn 1 to hit all the other stuff. However, the 4 wyverns did kill the entire guard blob before he ever got to move it (he didn't spread as much as he should have because the Knight and Demolishers blocked him in).

 

http://i.imgur.com/UtqKIaU.jpg?1

 

He moved the Knight up aggressively, which was fine for me because I was going to tarpit it with the zombies I had going right at him. However, in turn 2 I did get the chance to use 6 of my 12 rapiers on him, though I only managed to take off 2 Hull Points...
 

http://i.imgur.com/njtE8zK.jpg?1

 

...but then I fired my fire raptor, which I had brought in on the flank to try for lucky side shots with str 7 versus AV 12. I rolled an amazing 5, 5, 6, 6 and killed all 4 remaining hull points off the side! And did damage to two other vehicles with the other guns. Clearly Papa Nurgle is happy with the work in progress conversion on that fire raptor.

 

http://i.imgur.com/SMhabfl.jpg?1

 

By the end of turn 4, I had killed off the two wounded demolishers with the fire raptor shooting into their rear armor while summoned screamers took out the rest of the chimeras. In turn 5, all he had left was the vendetta, which he put into hover mode to try to kill a unit. Then I killed it off with rapiers.

 

11/11 points

 

Game 2 - Versus Sisters + Grey Knights + Knight. He brought 3 immolators with 5-woman sister squads with anti-psyker crossbows, saint celestine with 5 seraphim, 2 exorcists, 1 empty twin linked lascannon razorback, a terminator librarian with 5 grey knight normal troopers, 5 grey knight terminators, and 1 knight with a D chainsword and the battlecannon arm.

 

http://i.imgur.com/WUXidKv.jpg?1
 

Mission was ITC Mission 1: Dawn of War, each person placed one maelstrom objective outside their deployment zone + one Emperor's Will inside the deployment zone.

 

http://i.imgur.com/dHujlr7.jpg?1

 

He chose to Deep Strike Reserve saint celestine and her bodyguard + the 5 terminators. I got very lucky this game - I seized the initiative, then kicked the heck out of the Knight with 6 rapiers firing into it. I blew it up, and it scattered exactly on top of the terminator librarian and 5 grey knights hiding on top of an objective in the ruins, killing them with the D explosion. I summoned 6 screamers to grab the objective just outside his deployment zone (what I rolled for that turn) and to block his transports from reaching the one just outside my deployment, which was what I rolled.

 

http://i.imgur.com/N9z5Vbj.jpg?1

 

At this point he had no choice but to drive his whole army at me to grab objectives. He was smart and parked one immolator right on top of the objective. I killed it with shooting, then assaulted the sisters with zombies, screamers, and daemonettes. I also blew up the other immolator and then killed the sisters with wyverns when they got out.

 

http://i.imgur.com/itYrPvm.jpg?1

 

http://i.imgur.com/LADtIKt.jpg?1

 

The fire raptor came on and failed to hurt much. He brought in saint celestine behind my lines and the terminators nearby on my flank. I killed 1 terminator with shooting, but failed to do much to the seraphim thanks to a 2+ saint celestine armor save. I then charged the 4 terminators with 20 zombies.

 

http://i.imgur.com/Mgd108U.jpg?1

 

Zombies win combat 3 dead grey knight terminators to 1 dead zombie! Munch munch! The surviving terminator ran off before he lost his brains. By end of turn 4 we called it because he was about to be tabled and I was far in the lead on all scoring metrics.

 

11/11 points

 

Game 3 - Versus IG + Knight. He brought the gatling knight, 1 vulture, 2 vendettas (one with 1 colexus assassin inside, the other with veterans), 1 company command in a chimera, 2 troop squads in tauroxes, 1 giant infantry blob, 1 skyshield, 1 wyvern.

 

Mission was ITC Mission 4: Hammer and Anvil, each person placed 3 scouring objectives that also counted as maelstrom objectives for both players. Scouring was only your 3 objectives, and at game's end you got 1 scouring point for the one in your deployment, 2 for the one in midfield, and 3 for the one in the opponent's deployment.

 

http://i.imgur.com/NfyKpFH.jpg?1

 

This game was very wacky and required me to adapt. He got to go first, and he got the IG d3 units outflank ability. Very scary - apparently it allows you to do it with any unit, so he outflanked the knight on me, which threw off all my plans. he also outflanked a chimera command with lots of plasmas. Worse, he reserved almost everything but the tauroxes out of range of everything (he didn't try for maelstrom the first few turns), and the vulture and wyvern started on the skyshield. I failed to seize despite a 4+ to do so, and he moved everything out of range right away.

 

http://i.imgur.com/dgHrPxi.jpg?1

 

Bottom of turn 1 I moved up to grab objectives with summoned units and zombies, and I tried to line my edges to discourage outflanking. I immobilized the vulture in hover mode with my quadgun.

 

http://i.imgur.com/R4T8asF.jpg?1

 

He was very smart and surprised me by super heavy blitzing my zombies and some of my rapiers. Luckily I just lost a few zombies, and the guns did little to my artillery (though he did kill off a wyvern on the other side of my flanks). His chimera came in on the other end on top of his #2 objective. It was objective secured so I had to do something. Shooting killed the second wyvern in the flank edge squad. He made every single reserve roll except he forgot to bring on his guard blob. He brought 1 vendetta with the anti-psyker assassin all the way to my deployment and got in range of both horror squads and 2 heralds to keep me from getting charges on my turn (12" from the vendetta hull for the aura....).

 

http://i.imgur.com/AwgtJ04.jpg?1

 

I kept calm, withered the reserve storm, and then killed the knight with 12 rapier shots, then used my fire raptor to finish off the assassin vendetta that had already lost 1 HP from the quadgun intercept. The assassin died when the flier went down, I blew up the outflanking command chimera and ultimately killed the guys inside with summoned daemonettes. I had a keeper of secrets there nearby JUST IN CASE!

 

http://i.imgur.com/kuHhLHt.jpg?1

 

The screamers finished off the immobilized vulture way in his back field.

 

http://i.imgur.com/i6bsasB.jpg?1

 

http://i.imgur.com/ntYtUis.jpg?1

 

At this point he had nothing left but a taurox and a guard blob slowly trying to make their way to even the skyshield objective in his deployment zone, and he had a taurox with squad on top of my #3 in his ruins. However, I had killed everything else and I had screamers and daemonettes ready to kill the stuff in the ruins of my shooting didn't finish it. I was way ahead on everything and it was clear I would win, so we called it by end of turn 4.

 

11/11 points

 

Tournament Results: 33/33 ITC mission points, 1st Place

 

Was very happy to have the top finish by mission performance at this store two 1850 tournaments in a row...last time with 59/60, this time with 33/33 using the normal ITC mission scoring. Last time I grabbed a Daemons army box with my prize winnings, this time I paid for most of a new bloodthirster.

 

Papa Nurgle was pleased this day! Knights are no match for the glory of Chaos!

 

http://i.imgur.com/fevjgLR.jpg?1

 

Comments and feedback appreciated!

 

[librisrouge]

Knights are no match for twelve rapier batteries my friend. You certainly came loaded for bear and it worked out great for you. Congratulations on the win.